Claudius wadsworth



(No Model.)

C. WADSWORTH.

MACHINE POR GHARGING PIRE WORKS.

No. 414,094. Patented Oct. 29, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLAUDIUS IVADSVORTH, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO TI-IE UNEXCELLED FIREWORKS COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y. l

MACHINEYFOR CHARGING FIRE-WORKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 414,094, dated October 29, 1889.

Application filed June 15, 1889. Serial No. 314,400. (No model.)

To LZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLAUDrUs WADswoETH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county ofv Kings and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Machines for Charging Fire- Works, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that type of ma- 1o chines or apparatus for charging fire-works for which Letters Patent No. 376,004 were issued January 3, 1888, to Charles B. Linton; and the objects of the present invention are to reduce the labor and more rapidly malinfacture fire-works by facilitating the charging of the tubes or cases and to enlarge the capacity of the machine without increasing the working size of the pressplaten and its operating mechanism.

2o The invention consists, essentially, in the combination, with the movable platen, of a rotary table for carrying a plurality of rocket or other tubes or cases; and, further, the invention consists in the novel features of con- 2 5 struction and combination of devices hereinafter described, and specified in the claim, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a ma- 3o chine or apparatus embodying my invention; and Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the line a', Fig. 1.

In order to enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will now den scribe the same in detail, referring to the drawings, wherein-e The numeral 1 indicates a base=plate, 2 a l1ead-plate, and 3 connecting standards or supports, on which is arranged to advance 4o and recede a press-platen 4, which, as shown,

is triangular in outline or configuration.

The mechanism for operating the platen may be of any known type, but preferably comprises a hydraulic cylinder 5 and plunger 6, substantially as in an ordinary hydraulic press. The base and head plates may be triangular and the standards or supports cylindrical and passed through similar-shaped orifices at the angles of the platen. A circun 5o lar or other shaped rotating table 7 is journaled on the central standard 3 above and in contact with the platen, and this table carries a series of plates 8, from which rise the tapering mandrels or spindles 9, which at their lower ends are secured to the table, as by shanks 10 and nuts 11, while the plates 8 can be raised upon the mandrels or spindles to lift the charged rocket or other tubes or cases 12, as hereinafter explained.

The head-plate 2 of the press is provided 6o with rammers 13, and loose rammers will also be provided for ramrning or compressing the charge or charges, all as in the Letters Pat ent hereiubefore alluded to.

The tube or case carrying plates 8 arerect- 65 angular or oblong, and, as shown, there are preferably three of such plates located in a triangular path on the rotating table, such arrangement admitting of the blocks being successively brought into a right line directly 7o beneath the rammers on the head-plate for the simultaneous ramming of the charges in all the tubes or cases carried by the plate. The plates are shown as provided with twelve spindles located in two parallel rows of six each; but obviously the number may beincreased or diminished at will or as may be desired. The tubes or cases may be placed in position on all the plates and the table rotated to bring the plates in succession under 8o the rammers for the pressing operation; or tubes or cases may be placed in position While the charges in other tubes or cases are being rammed o r compressed.

The plates 8 can be raised for lifting the 85 charged tubes orcases by a system of levers, as in the patent before mentioned,and for this purpose the plates are provided at each end with a lug or projecting arm 14, which will permit a lever to engage under each lug 9o or arm above the rotating table.

In practice the tubes or cases are placed on the spindles and charged as usual, and the table is rotated to successively bring the tubes in alignment with the rammers on the head-plate,when the hydraulic or other platen-operating mechanism is brought into action to raise t-he platen, and with it the table, thus causing the rammers to enter the tubes or cases and simultaneously ram or compress all Ioo the charges in the tubes carried by a plate. The platen is then lowered and the table is rotated,tdbringanother tube or case carrying plate in proper position to. ram or compress the charges in the tubes thereupon, While those tubes previously charged can be released from their Inandrels or spindles by inserting suitable levers under the lugs or arms 14 to raisethe plate and thereby simult'ar'ie-H ously lift all the charged tubes on such plate.

The rotating table at one side of the machine or apparatus projects laterally beyondA the triangular platen to afford unobstructed access to that side of the table for the con- Venient and rapid Working of the machine and the placing and displacing "of OI' Cases.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is-- f A maohine for charging irefworks, consisting of a head-plate having'arow of rammers, standards supporting the head-plate, a platen rising and falling on the standards, a rotating table journaled on one of the standards, a series of lifting-plates arranged in a triangle on the 4 rotating table,'and` la series of spindles secured in a flxedvposition to the rotating table and loosely passing through each one of the lifting-plates, substantially as described.

In'testiinony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of tWo Witnesses.

.CLAUDIUS WADSWORTH. 

